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Target Audience
Social Workers, Psychologists, Counselors, Teachers, Occupational Therapists, Marriage and Family Therapists, Case Managers, Addiction Counselors, Therapists, Nurses Other Mental Health Professionals
Objectives
- Demonstrate to clients the neurological processes underlying anxiety in a clearly understandable manner that enhances client motivation.
- Incorporate personalized goals to increase client engagement and focus client efforts on making lasting changes in the brain.
- Characterize the differences between amygdala-based and cortex-based anxiety symptoms in order to select the most effective treatment interventions.
- Individualize practical and evidence-based methods to resist anxiety and improve symptom management in clients.
- Demonstrate strategies for calming the amygdala without use of medication to improve client level of functioning.
- Recommend exposure-based strategies that change the amygdala responses to triggers to reduce anxiety symptoms.
- Employ a variety of strategies to improve clinical outcomes utilizing evidence-based strategies that target cortex-based responding, including cognitive restructuring, psychoeducation, cognitive defusion, distraction, and mindfulness.
- Differentiate symptom-producing cognitions characteristic of specific disorders, including Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as it relates to case conceptualization.
- Analyze the clinical implications of how SSRIs and SNRIs promote the process of treating anxiety.
- Determine detrimental effects of benzodiazepines as it relates to anxiety treatment outcomes.
- Differentiate between rebound anxiety and relapse symptoms to inform the clinician’s choice of treatment interventions.
- Breakdown the key elements of mindfulness practices in managing symptoms of anxiety.
- Present client education exercises that can be utilized in session to train clients in the use of mindfulness techniques.
- Appraise common reactions to aversion and utilize clinical strategies to replace them with mindfulness.
- Reframe exposure as an opportunity to teach the amygdala new responses in order to improve client engagement and treatment compliance.
- Utilize clinical strategies for exposure that reduce avoidance and train clients to push through anxiety.
- Employ effective strategies for reducing anxiety symptoms utilizing imaginal and in vivo exposure, including use of SUDS and attention to interceptive triggers.
- Provide clinical strategies for managing comorbid depression that reduce worry, rumination, and common cognitive errors while promoting positive thinking and social interaction.
- Use cognitive restructuring and cognitive strategies for managing symptoms of OCD and GAD that focus on scheduling obsession/worries and promote client acceptance of uncertainty.
- Implement interventions in a clinical setting that use a reconsolidation approach to reactivate a symptom-producing memory and disconfirm it.
Outline
Module 2: Working with the Amygdala
- Explaining the Amygdala’s Role in Anxiety
- The protective, evolutionary role of the amygdala
- The amygdala and the stress/fear/anxiety response
- The role of the amygdala in forming emotional memories
- Explaining the Fight/Flight/Freeze response to clients
- Teaching the amygdala
- The language of the amygdala - communicating alarms and relying on pairings
- Why the amygdala needs experience to learn
- How “Triggers” are created in the amygdala
- Managing the Amygdala
- Essential for all Anxiety Disorders, PTSD, OCD, Depression
- Symptomatic behavior is often a response to amygdala activation
- Interventions that impact the amygdala
- The Vagus nerve’s role in recovery from the activation of the sympathetic nervous system
- Interventions that reduce activation in the amygdala over time
- Communicating with your client to enhance treatment compliance
- Exposure: activating the fear circuitry created in the amygdala to generate new connections
- Tips for effective exposure strategies
- Exposure with response prevention is essential when treating OCD
- Limitations and Risks in Neuroscience-Informed Treatment of Anxiety
- The efficacy of evidence based treatments differ by individual and context
- Research is constantly evolving
- Using analogies and other psychoeducation communication
- Medication information and interaction with interventions
- More studies needed to support some observed clinical outcomes
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